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gardener / shaheed of the discourse wars / phd candidate in history
Joined October 2016
You stop thinking like this when you hit 25.
I trust confrontational people a lot more than non-confrontational ones, because they have no problem raising issues, speaking up and being honest up front.
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My hunch is that tech is careening towards some kind of industry-wide catastrophe and they’re enlisting the help of the government to make sure the consequences of that catastrophe are socialized.
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“isn’t my cousin hot aha”.
My cousin from Croatia sent me these candids his friend took for him like dang why didn’t I inherit being this photogenic
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a gay boyfriend is kinda like a brother you have sex with.
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girl quit playing and take your ass down to the gurudwara….
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when you get up in the middle of the night to get some water and you see your cat chilling in the living room
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walking around campus as a fourth year grad student during freshman orientation
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thought these were fraudulent passports.
My BIGGEST book haul ever just came in from my fav book publishers. (Yes it’s all mostly stuff on philosophy and mysticism)
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trying to find non-academic jobs I might be qualified for and realizing that pursuing a PhD might’ve been the biggest mistake of my life.
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South Asian desserts be like “mmm fried milk solids in syrup”.
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Mom, can you come get me? The Bushwick doulas are sharing notes-app poetry about “alchemizing grief into courage”.
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If somebody called my writing “accessible” I think I’d kill myself.
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I want a million Wasian martyrs to march on Altoona.
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a lot of people seem to have a hard time accepting that academic debates are a conversation they’re not a part of.
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So there’s this fraying social fabric….
I know a teacher that done disrespected my child hates to see me coming 😭I’m so glad my child at a new school.
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Why does the second guy look like Fran Lebowitz.
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if this were any other foundering empire Biden would be replaced by an alarmingly young boy child who’s controlled by a manipulative dowager countess and her scheming eunuchs.
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gross focaccias with weird fruit and vegetable toppings are OUT in 2025.
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lived under a lesbian couple for a year and their fights were so intense I swear to god they were throwing furniture at each other.
Studies consistently find that gay men commit very little violent crime. Possibly even less than straight women.
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lowkey obsessed with cherry-picking from primary sources, misreading secondary sources, and distorting history 😈.
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everyone so cheap and tacky now.
Utterly obsessed with the concept of your lover’s fingers engraved on a cuff, making it seem as though they're holding your arm.
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Church attendance is declining because everybody quietly converted to animistic Buddhism
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“the Islamic religion”.
yall baby the Islamic religion too much when it's time to give baseline criticism lol.
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part of the reason people don’t do dinner parties anymore is that a lot of y’all cannot cook.
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your incoherent politics don’t really matter so long as you’re hot and that’s where a lot of you go wrong.
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I’m obsessed with the Indian culture of strolling into the office at 11, taking an hourlong lunch at 1, and then dipping at 4:30.
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Omar Apollo is proof stardom is not in the cards for skinny fats.
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there's a great source in the Indian National Archive's digital collection that's basically a bunch of Indian Jews petitioning Nehru to let them come back to India because they hated living in Israel so much.
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people with houses like this haven’t been Republican in decades.
This + republican parents.
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I wanna be a sort of academic jester who doesn’t actually publish any scholarly work but shows up at conferences and knows the debates well enough to make jokes about the presenters and their research.
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if you think americanized chinese food is bad you should see what indians did to it.
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wouldn’t it be awesome if academic departments tweeted about their grad students like this.
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oh no someone called you chic.
things that have been said to me from a yt person on fire island (pt 1) . “there’s always at least one chic asian guy at every party… is that bodega veneta?”
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Ban marital rape before you start talking about “laws are titled towards women”.
Gender war discourse in India is cursed. The fact is that Indian society is tilted towards men and Indian laws are tilted towards women. Most of these laws were made to protect illiterate rural women but society has urbanized now while India still lacks state capacity.
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This is a T4T couple.
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me at the Jewish studies dinner when they asked us to observe a moment of silence for fallen IDF soldiers
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so many people cling to this idea of gen z as uniquely and precociously critical meanwhile anyone who actually engages with them on a daily basis will tell you that they are some of the most benighted, ideologically captured people on the planet.
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tapping the sign
what english words you've never heard of before has taylor swift taught you?
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why’s he kinda giving female comp lit department chair….
One of the last photographs of Steve Jobs, the visionary behind Apple, captured mere days before his unfortunate passing on October 5, 2011, due to pancreatic cancer.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
We should go back to the Puritan naming convention of naming kids after values, but updated. Instead of being named Obedience you can be named Punctuality.
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Indian street cats have these beautiful coat patterns that you rarely see in the States
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my uncle told us he found poetry my great grandpa had written about being molested by the rebbe at the yeshiva
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He was turned in by a fucking McDonald's employee, Americans are beyond saving.
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“East Asians are the white people of Asia” like Southeast Asian countries don’t go Hitler mode on a different ethnic minority every 2-3 years.
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getting filled must feel good as fuck for a gap in the historiography.
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an under-discussed dimension of the crisis in the humanities is that a lot of academics are evil.
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I only identify as queer for the sake of fellowship applications, otherwise I’m just gay.
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Philosophy section of a bookstore in Iran: Confessions, Being and Time, Minima Moralia . Philosophy section in India: Atomic Habits, Mein Kampf.
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oh, you’re putting up boundaries? to protect yourself? like a nation-state?.
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Hurricane Saeko.
is there a reason why every hurricane is named after a white person ?.
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so there’s this stud….
In #Lucknow, a 24-year-old woman led a gang to commit robberies in order to finance her relationship with her same-sex partner. Details 🔗
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my other toxic trait is that I think I could’ve prevented Partition.
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graduating in 2019 right before the pandemic was like catching the last chopper out of Nam.
kids, i’m here to tell you: this was exactly as great as you think it was, and pretty obviously superior to the college experience today. i take no pleasure in saying this!.
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